Improvement in calendar and pen-rack



- C. SCHMIDT.

v Calendar and Pen Rack.

I No. 201,840. Patented March 26,1878.

PETERS, PHOTQ-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D C

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CONSTANTIN SCHMIDT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT lN CALENDAR AND PEN-RACK.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 201,840, dated March 26, 1878 application filed February 26, 1878.

veniently placed on a table or desk, where it will serve as a calendar or as a memorandumpad and as a pen-rack, and also for receiving papers to be filed, all substantially as hereinafter stated.

The frame A of the calendar or pad is composed of two upright side pieces or cheeks, a a, which are united by suitable cross-pieces at or near the bottom, or at other parts of the frame. The side pieces or cheeks a a are also provided with upwardly-projecting prongs b b, which constitute a pen-rack, in manner clearly indicated, but whose principal object is to constitute rests for a cross-bar, on which the pivoted pad can be placed. The upper parts of the two cheeks a a are united by a rod, d, which connects with an eyebolt or pin, B, that extends through the pad C of sheets of paper constituting a calendar or memorandum-pad.

The bolt B is preferably about midway between the cheeks a a. The pin or bolt B, passing through the upper connected ends of the sheets of the pad C, receives at its outer end a suitable nut or cap, e, by which the pad is clamped in place.

On the rod 01 the calendar-padcan be turned, as indicated in Fig. 1, either by turning the eyebolt B on said rod, or by turning said rod in the frame A.

Instead of the eyebolt, other means for connecting the pad to the rod d, so that the pad can turn on or with said rod, may be devised.

By making the pad rotary, as stated, it may be swung so as to display the reverse of the calendar, where I propose to have desirable information, such as a small memorandumcalendar for the ensuing year, or other information of a desirable character.

By turning the calendar-pad on the pin d, it may also be brought into alevel or other suitable position for writing upon it, and it may in this position be rested on a pen-holder, pencil, or rod placed on the projecting prongs b.

The back or last sheet of the pad C should be a tablet or stiff plate, f, for the purpose of giving greater support to the calendar-pad as it wears thinner.

The sheets that constitute the calendar-pad may have blank spaces on them for greaterconvenience for making memoranda, or may be entirely blank; or they may have suitable information printed on them, such as the day of the month and the number of days still in the year, &c.

D is a prong or pointed pinprojecting from the frame A behind the pad, and intended to receive and file papers which it may be desired to preserve.

At the end of the year the old pad or its remaining stump may be removed from the pin B, and a new pad put in place on said pin B, or otherwise on the rod d, so that the same stand can be conveniently used for an indefinite length of time.

I claim as my invention-- 1. The combination of the stand A with the transverse rod d, pin or bolt B, and pad C, which pad, when applied to the rod 01, can be turned thereon, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The frame A, containing the pivoted pad C between its cheeks a a, and provided with projecting prongs b, all arranged so that the pad can be placed and held in proper position for writing by a pin resting on the prongs 72, substantially as specified.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a combined pad, frame, and file, consisting of the frame A, fiat pad C, and pin D, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

4. The combination of the frame Awith the pivoted tablet f and pivoted and reversible padC, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

CONSTAN TIN SCHMIDT.

Witnesses F. v. BRIEsEN, T. B. MOSHER. 

